3201 WETMORE AVE 2016-01-01 MF Import

� Nay 13, 1988 Davmd G. Hudson� President Snohomish County Camano Board of Realtors 3201 �4etmore Everett, Washington 98201 Dear Nr. Hudson: Re: Your letter of P7ay 2, 1988 (see enclosed). ��d[�� Jl1N 1 U 1988 C1Tlc ur c', �;:1•.TT Plannl�g ��- It did not just come to your attention that we Nanted to open an art gallery at the unit ]710 �2nd St. nor did we contact the city for a variance to the present zoning. You/Scott Brcwn, et al co��tacted the city in our behalf fer the application, though incomplete, back in March of '88. Reason3 You said there would be no problem in our opening the gallery. Which is what Vte/Alice Lashbrook/Lurlyn Cliiford/Scott Brown, etc. had always known our intention, based upon the assurance of all the above that we could do so without any problems as We had been purposfully led to believe; misi.nformed as we Were, it seemed reasonable to believe the "Board of Realtors" on the question of zoning/planning of real estate. Indeed, that the property was leased to us for commercial use was never in question as "all" tenants in our unit as well as your unit; the "Eoard" offices themselves; the State Senator in ours; ourselves, ere all today commercial, with the one exception of one lady in the attic apact.nent. (9 out of 10) people in both units are enployees of com;iercial er.terprises. I might add that all of us under zoning R-5 are today in violation of such ordinances to include the Board of Realtors. You stated in the letter thzt you had talked to Alice Lashbrook as to Whether "there was (no) accomcdation made for any use except residential foc the unit" in question. She told me, on May lOth, you had not , and she reaffirned to me that in leasing the unit as understood, it was a misrepresentation from the first. Since my own discovery (back in March '88) oi the R5 zoning that the Board of Realtors and the senator today are in violation of; and the fact that we today are not in any way in violation of; I can only conclude that the reason for your letter to us on May 2, 19d8 wa3 a contrivance to lay your future groundaork for your own request from the city of Everett for a variance and use oermit. You� "reasonableness" in being "will.iny to discuss the termination of the lease before the time so provideo" is an insult to any efLort at "cooperation" as indicated.